Island



(No Model.)

J. LOWE.

BUTTON PASTENER.

No. 303,532. Patented Aug. 12,1334.

NITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

JOHN LOWE, or PROVIDENCE, nnonn ISLAND.

BUTTON-FASTENER.

E'ZIICIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 303,532, dated August12, 1884.

Application filed June 20, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN LOWE, of Providence, in the State of RhodeIsland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inButton-Fasteners; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part ofthis specification.

This invention relates to a simple device for fastening buttons to clothor leather, which are commonly used for button-gaiters, yet may be usedin any material for securing buttons, and yet which can easily beremoved when required, all of which will be hereinafter moreparticularly described, and pointed outin the claim.

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification,Figure 1 represents a prepared blank of sheet metal in perspective; Fig.2, a transverse section through the middle line of ahook when bent toits proper form. 3 is a perspective view of the fastener, showing abutton in dotted lines in the act of being fastened to it. Fig. 4 is aside view of the fastener in the hole of the material shown in section.Fig. 5 represents the method of securing the button.

A is a blank piece of sheet metal stamped out in the form of a T, havingthe upper edge at a hollowed out, as seen in the figures. The stem to isbent in the form of a hook, as in Fig. 2, and the end of it must be on aline with the face a, so that when the button has been put on the hookand the eye drawn through the material, as seen in Fig. 4, it will beimpossible for the button to become detached while in that relation tothe material, yet whenever it may become necessary to detach thebuttons, or the eye of one which has been broken, by simply shoving thefastener back through the material the eye can be taken from the hook.

As seen in Fig. 3 in dotted lines, B represents the button,"having theeye 6, and the stem of the fastener made to passinto the eye.

Fig. 5 represents the manner in which a button is to be fastened on thematerial C. An orifice is punched in the material large enough for theeye of the button to pass through. It is then inserted, as in Fig. 5.The fastener is then hooked through the eye, which being done the buttonis pulled back through the material, as represented in Fig. 4, which isan inverted view of Fig. 5.

I claim A button-fastener having the end of the hook bent to a line withthe face of the base or stem, and which base or stem has a recess on theinner edge for the entrance of the eye of the button over the end of thehook, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signaturein presence of two witnesses.

JOHN LOWVE.

\Vitnesses:

DANIEL A. PEIROE, STEPHEN O. RANDALL.

